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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Deep Stupid # 11

What I love most about Michelle Malkin is her ideological purity. To Michelle, having a record slightly to the right of the average New York State Republican Assembly Member is equivalent to radical liberalism. You, know, it would almost be fun - in a plodding, tedious sort of way - to be making this stuff up. But, the second thing that I love about Michelle is that she saves me the trouble.

In case you missed it, the 23rd congressional district of the great state of New York had an open seat to fill. It seems that radical leftist/socialist/democrat-partyist/nazi-commie/arab-and-or-muslim President B. Hussein O'Bama, in a fit of devious cynicism, appointed Republican Congressman John M. McHugh as Secretary of the Army. Thus opened the seat, and this week's election filled it.

This district has been staunchly Republican for about as long as there have been Republicans. (You wouldn't know from looking at it today, but this was once "The Party of Lincoln." Really.) The local Republican pols selected - as is their right, I would imagine - the candidate who, in their opinion, best represented the district's Republican sensitivities. Their selection, from nine contenders, was six-term Assembly member Dierdre "Dede" Scozzafava.

Yes, it’s time for the upside-down elephant. The Stupid Party is at it again. The subject of today’s column: An abomination in the NY23 special congressional race to replace former GOP Rep. John McHugh, who accepted President Obama’s Army Secretary position. Way to go, Beltway GOP establishment. Grass-roots fiscal conservatives are fired up over ACORN, the SEIU, tax-and-spend radicals. Grass-roots social conservatives are battling radical abortion and gay marriage policies. You have been asking movement conservatives to give you money to fight the ACORN-friendly, union-pandering, tax-and-spend, radical Democrats.

Then you use their money to try and elect Dede Scozzafava, an ACORN-friendly, union-pandering, tax-and-spend radical Republican. And you use that money to fightDoug Hoffman, a viable, bona fide conservative candidate in the race who is closing the gap in the polls.

I mean, who are these upstart upstate New York yokels to propose the candidacy of a local, long term party loyalist, and main-stream Repugnicant, when there are are tea-baggers, birthers, 10thers, and 9/12ers in Alabama and Alaska who must be appeased?

Because the candidate locally selected in a district that has been reliably Republican for 160 years is not Republican enough. Evidently, neither are the Republican party, Michael Steele, and John Boehner. Nor is conservative stalwart Newt "Contract on America" Gingrich.

As I mentioned in my column post on the NY23 special election, the NRCC is using conservatives’ money to back a radical leftist and attack a bona fide, viable conservative candidate for Congress in a safe Republican district. Gingrich has endorsed the radical leftist.

If the idea of Gingrich supporting a radical leftist doesn't send a frisson of cognitive dissonance right into your cerebral cortex, then you need another martini. Michelle takes it very seriously, though, as she pre-emptively dismisses Newt's potential presidential candidacy in 2012.

Well, the 3 million bucks were effective, in a way. Radical left-wing pinko proto-commie Scozzafava dropped out of the race - on Hollowe'en, if I recall correctly - leaving Republicans, Royalists, Whigs, and conservatives of all stripes the singular choice of Mr. Doug Hoffman.

Last week it turned out that Hoffman’s prime attribute to the radical right — as a take-no-prisoners fiscal conservative — was bogus. In fact he’s on the finance committee of a hospital that happily helped itself to a $479,000 federal earmark. Then again, without the federal government largess that the tea party crowd so deplores, New York’s 23rd would be a Siberia of joblessness. The biggest local employer is the pork-dependent military base, Fort Drum.

But, at the end of the day, none of it mattered, and maybe the $ three million weren't so effective after all, since, the Democratic candidate - whoever he was - won the election.

I'm struggling with schadenfreude here. 2012 is a ways off, and I don't want to develope false optimism. But Michelle gives me hope. Keep driving that base to the right, sweetheart, farther and farther from the main stream, and anything that resembles sanity. It's why we love you. Really!

The love - it BURNS!
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A big hat tip to NYT columnist Frank Rich who did all the heavy lifting for his column which I have both liberally (so to speak) quoted above, and drawn on in a miriad of other subtle ways. And a big-boatload of love to Michelle, whithout whom, none of this would have been possible. Or necessary.

4 comments:

J said...Actually, after reading a bit about the battle, I agree Miss Malkin f-ed up, along with the rest of the GOP right (including Sarah Klondike, and Glenn Dreck). Miss Scozzafava was favored to win, but she was pro-abortion, and too close to unions, so the fundies forced her out: Miss Scozzafava in fact bailed, though expected to win, and told her supporters to vote for the Demo Bill Owens, who won. So stupid-GOP-tactics as usual.

That said, I find about one out of 10 Malkin columns (like those against theocracy, including muslim) not completely devoid of intellectual merit.

(go ahead and delete my deleted posts, if you so choose, Jzb. Or this one for that matter. Editing not going so well....vino, and no spectacles...)

This doesn't belong specifically under this post, but have you heard about the "Con serv a tive Bi ble Move ment"? where they plan to re-translate the Bible to reflect Conservative principles and get rid of anything that smacks of liberalism. They want to strike out passages that "liberals" added later, e.g. the story of the adulteress. I'm simplifying of course, but here's a link to start you off.

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/25741.html

Not a real link mind you, but it's all I got!Regardless of one's religious beliefs, I think most of us, believers and partial believers and non-believers, have reason to find this alarming. If it's not a hoax then there will be comedy gold in there for years. I'm salivating already. You will compose your first opera about this, I predict!Lo LPJB

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